Why Do People Buddy Punch For One Another? Buddy punching by definition is a supposed act of friendship but, in reality, it is an act of fraud conducted by one colleague for another. The term refers to old-fashioned punch in and punch out cards that employees used to show when they had begun a shift…
When it comes to time tracking software in Ireland, the country does not look to be kept in the past. What do we mean by that? If a company implements paper tracking, then it is inefficient with its methods of tracking time. With a punch clock, you run the risk of not having the appropriate…
Did you know that your business could be losing thousands of Euro each year due to intentional and error-driven time theft? For companies such as construction and manufacturing warehouses, this is even more prevalent. With a large number of mobile labourers, you could be seeing a rise of time-theft and other problems that may arise.…
Are you worried about employee fraud? While there are numerous types of fraud to watch out for, the most consistent involves time theft. No, this isn’t something from an Irish science fiction movie. Instead, it involves employees doing things like clocking each other in, or not working while they’re on the clock. Depending on the…
Is it in your business plans in 2019 to introduce an electronic time clock for employees? Are you unsure how to go about the process? It seems like a daunting task, doesn’t it? You have to program it with all your employee’s data. You have to teach everyone how to work it. You have to…
If you run a construction business, then you already know how tricky it can be to keep track of all of the hours that your employees work. You might have people starting one job at a certain time, while there’s another crew across town that has a different start time. As a result, you end…
In small businesses all throughout Ireland, traditional time clocks have been used for decades to keep track of the number of hours worked for each employee. The devices have proven to be more accurate and more reliable than a worker merely reporting themselves how long they were on the clock, but they are becoming outdated…
You may think that running a small business with over 25 employees using old-school practices is sufficient to keep operations smooth. You could have punch clocks, self-reporting, and spreadsheets that your employees are required to keep up to date. It’s one way to get the task completed, but there are some risks to them being…
There’s a reason why time clocks have been used successfully for decades. They make it easy to track the number of hours that your employees have worked, simplifying the payroll process. Without a time clock, you’d have to have your employees track their own hours, and we all know how that would turn out.…
For these more long-established offices, using a traditional punch-in employee time clock is simple. It easily keeps track of employees’ hours at the end of the work week or pay period and they rarely have to manually fix the time cards.
